Maps.

Yes. Maps. Couldn’t read them to save my life and even with the mobile, I still get lost. I don’t know why it all just goes weird for me on these things.

For example, I walk down steps of tube station and I look at all those lines and names, of tube trains and I’m like..

“WTF! How am I suppose to read this?”

Then I’d feel like this..

Once when I was at school, I joined a Cross country race.

All I had to do is follow the damn path. Just follow those signs. So the race starts and here we go….

It didn’t take long where I thought I must be a badass because no one was behind me. I was in the lead! Oh yeah!

Well, that’s what I thought.

Everyone else turned somewhere and I’m running and smiling, feeling like I must be the most fantastic runner in the world until 25 minutes later, I found myself in a place called nowhere.

I tried to pretend I was ok but,.no matter how much I tried to do all the motivational crap, it just didn’t work.

I was…

So now, this has plagued my life, wherever I go, even if I can’t speak the language, I am talking to people in different countries.

They do all the signals with hands and anything with signs, signals, pointing, my mind goes completely blank.

I tried to learn how to read maps and bought me a compass and went on some walk which I thought will only be for a couple of hours.

Found myself lost and staring at cows who were amused as I walked to the left. Then they saw me come back and walk the opposite way, and then I walked over the fence and through them.

I came right back and felt..

Finally met a famer who asked…

“Eh mate, you are a bit away from city, aren’t yah?”
“Where am I?”
“Where you want to be?”
“Peak District.”
“Holy shit mate. You’re miles off!”

So now, when walking about and I see those travelling shops and my eyes catches a map hanging on window.

I feel like it’s giving me this evil grin and then I hear this deep bellowing mocking laughter. I re-live all the places and times I got lost.

So yes, one of them is reading maps especially when I travel around the world and like going to walks to wherever, without a sense of direction at times.